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💥 New Episode 💥
EP 181: Ricky
Imagine out of nowhere, your phone loses signal. No calls, no data, nothing. This week, Ricky Handschumacher shares how he learned to slip into strangers’ phones and rummage through them for anything he thought was valuable.
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NEW @citizenlab report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads.
45 devices at @AJEnglish confirmed infected
citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
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Why is this not a Netflix series yet?
@lowpodcast
@JackRhysider I've been a long time listener and recommender of @DarknetDiaries.
LOW is a new HIGH!
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GitHub is banning the people who study malware while its own users are getting hit by supply chain attacks.
Deleting the source code doesn't stop a single attacker, it only blinds the defenders who protect us.
Hello
Unfortunately, @GitHub has banned us. They have orbital nuked the entire malware source code collection.
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New Episode Alert!
EP 180: Conti
Most hackers quietly fade away. #Conti did not. How did one of the most feared ransomware gangs collapse in the messiest, most public way possible?
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Ola Bini (ep 163) has been emergency deported from Ecuador. He has returned to Sweden. He's not sure why. But was unable to bring anything with him from the home he lived in for a decade. If you haven't heard his story go listen. It's harrowing darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
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LOW just passed 100,000 downloads. But it's still real early. Most of my listeners/followers/friends/family/pets has not listened yet. It's time to jump in. Now is the time to feel more human than ever.
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Need a perspective change on life? Listen to LOW.
I’ve been listening to LOW since yesterday, and I must say, it’s really changing my perception of what it means to actually live. This is the lifelong lesson I think I really need at this point in my life. @JackRhysider, you really put in a lot of good work piecing this together.
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New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names are in the data 404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed…
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The time has come!
I've made a new podcast, and it's ready for everyone to listen to!
It's called LOW. It's a 5 part series about the weight of being, and the wreckage of waking up.
It's available in all podcast players right now, free. Just search for LOW or go to thisislow.com.
Hi .@codybrown just sent you a DM. Working on a story and would love to talk to you re: SIM Swapping attack in 2017.
RT @cnnbrk: Germany's far-right AfD party set to win in eastern state election but it's unclear if the result would be enough to govern, ex…
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New episode!
EP 179: The Courthouse - Revisited
The epic story of two penetration testers in the Iowa courthouse has a new ending to their story! Listen to this updated version of the episode from 2020.
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scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C.
nytimes.com/2026/08/29/busin…
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I spoke with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, which has encrypted the daily online work/comms a hundred million-plus people.
We talked in particular about Proton's surprising embrace of AI tools. Yen says "AI is surveillance." He also says it's "unavoidable."
wired.com/story/the-big-inte…
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This is complete insanity. How is this even legal? 😨
@OpenAI just launched a new feature last night called Computer History. For DFIR analysts, this is a new artifact class worth knowing about. I turned it on on my MacBook, parsed the artifacts, and it produced about 3,616 timeline events from ~2 hours of normal work.
While Computer History is on, it logs input, app focus, and what was on screen, then stores it on the Mac. It keeps a timed record of what you clicked, typed, and opened, including chats in Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other apps. That record stays on the Mac.
IRFlow-Timeline 1.0.10 now parses those Computer History artifacts and builds a timeline of the activity, so you can walk the investigation instead of grepping raw cache files. On a compromised Mac, this shows what was typed, clicked, and read. Not just that the app was installed.
#dfir #incidentresponse #openai #computerhistory
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This is a pretty big shift in U.S. cyber policy.
The White House is setting up a program that would let private cybersecurity companies conduct government-authorized operations against foreign cybercriminal groups, including surveillance and disruption of their infrastructure.
Not exactly “hack back,” but definitely a major expansion of the private sector’s role in offensive cyber operations.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
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DEFCON has released all slides and videos!!
media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2…